{"id":38,"date":"2025-01-20T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p22425\/?p=38"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:07:58","slug":"primary-2-class-blog-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/p22425\/2025\/01\/20\/primary-2-class-blog-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 2 Class Blog – January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome back to all of our lovely parents\/carers. We hope you have had a lovely New Year; we are so glad to have our children back in school, learning and having fun with their friends. We have lots of updates since our last blog:<\/p>\n

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Numeracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have been continuing to enjoy the challenge of silver, gold and platinum activities (that we choose ourself, after Ms Craig explains each task). We are really running with this challenge system now, and are becoming skilled at reflecting on our learning journey so that we can choose challenges that suit our own needs best.<\/p>\n

With Ms Craig and Miss Paterson, we have explored trickier addition and subtraction, estimating and measuring using rulers and data handling (using tally marks and graphs).<\/p>\n

“I liked measuring stuff with rulers because it is a fun challenge.” – Elliot<\/p>\n

“I liked measuring things with my hands.” – David<\/p>\n

Since coming back from the Christmas break, we have been trying to enhance our number fluency. This is where we practise reciting numbers forwards and backwards. We are aiming to become fluid in all numbers up to 100. We have been using this knowledge to answer addition and subtraction calculations confidently, quickly and mentally. So far, we are aiming to work within 30 for subtraction and up to 50 for addition. We are using lots of partner and whole-class games for practice.<\/p>\n

In Numeracy we have been learning about describing and following directions, using our left and right and making full and half turns. We watched some fun action songs to help us remember! We have also been learning about symmetry we see in nature and all around us, we designed our own beautiful butterflies with a symmetrical pattern. This term we are going to be learning all about time. We have already made our own P2 weekly timetable to display on our classroom wall, will be learning to tell the time using analogue and digital clocks and learning to use a calendar to plan personal events. Please keep practising the order of the days of the week and months of the year at home with me and help me when I am telling the o’clock and half past times on the clocks at home. (Mrs Brock)<\/em><\/div>\n
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“I found doing o’clock and half past times fun!” – Katie<\/p>\n

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Literacy<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have all developed our reading skills since our last blog update – Ms Craig is so proud! We are underpinning this with our knowledge of phonics where we are continuing to look at joined phonemes, but are starting to learn about split phonemes. Split phonemes are where 2 letters work together to make one sound, but they are split up by another letter. We sometimes also call this ‘magic e’.<\/p>\n

“I found split phonemes really fun, writing them down in words was easy for me.” – Lewis<\/p>\n

“Split phonemes are cool because they have spaces in them, but they still sound out together.” – Georgia<\/p>\n

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Can you ask your child to discuss the split phoneme in these words?<\/p>\n

the<\/strong>se<\/strong><\/p>\n

ro<\/strong>pe<\/strong><\/p>\n

cu<\/strong>te<\/strong><\/p>\n

ki<\/strong>te<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ju<\/strong>ne<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We have continued to develop our common word knowledge by creating a ‘class dictionary’. The children take ownership of this area and use it often when independently writing.<\/p>\n

“I liked it when people got to write in the common word strips.” – Isla<\/p>\n

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As mentioned, we are using our sounds to help us read. Since our last update, all children have made good progress. We are learning to read with confidence and expression when we are reading out loud. We are using our knowledge of ” ! ” and ” ? ” to help us express words appropriately.<\/p>\n

We are demonstrating our understanding of our reading books by completing a variety of jobs based on word knowledge, predictions on what might happen in a book, and summarising. When we complete all of these jobs, we understand the purpose and structure of our book a bit better each time. We love to read as a group!<\/p>\n

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“It was nice to make our wee books. I liked folding them at the end and seeing it turn into a book.” – Elliot<\/p>\n

In writing, we are continuing to use PM writing, and we will use it up ’til Primary 7! We listen to a story in ‘the big book’ and look at different aspects of grammar and vocabulary, During independent practice, we change small aspects of the story to make a new story (this could be changing characters, settings or adjectives, for example). By the end of the topic, we should be able to write our own stories. Since the New Year, we have started focussing on information reports. By the end of our topic we should be able to write appropriately about something that interests us (a toy, a hobby, a pet etc). Stay tuned to our school ‘X’ account (FKA Twitter) for sneak peeks of our excellent writing.<\/p>\n

“Writing information reports is fun because you learn different words for sentences every week.” – Wallace<\/p>\n

“I like to write because it helps us when we are older.” – David<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Health and Wellbeing<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have been splitting our PE timetable between using the gym hall and the outdoor quadrangle:<\/p>\n

In indoor PE (Monday) we have been developing our dance and gymnastics skills using lots of games and stations to increase our heart rates. We have also spent time discussing how to increase our energy and the impact of getting a good night’s sleep with Miss Paterson.<\/p>\n

“Dancing is a lot of fun!” – Millie<\/p>\n

In outdoor PE (Tuesday) we have been creating our own playground games, using a variety of outdoor equipment. We are enjoying using our creativity and team work skills to play and enjoy our new games together.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people played with me in my own game of tig.” – Jack McC<\/p>\n

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In class, we are also discussing our emotions. Take a look at our emotions alphabet:<\/p>\n

A \u2013 angry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 awkward<\/b><\/div>\n
B \u2013 bored<\/b><\/div>\n
C \u2013 crying\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 crazy<\/b><\/div>\n
D \u2013 dizzy<\/b><\/div>\n
E \u2013 excited<\/b><\/div>\n
F \u2013 funny<\/b><\/div>\n
G \u2013 great<\/b><\/div>\n
H \u2013 happy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hungry<\/b><\/div>\n
I \u2013 ill<\/b><\/div>\n
J \u2013 jazzy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 jealous<\/b><\/div>\n
K \u2013 knackered<\/b><\/div>\n
L \u2013 laughing<\/b><\/div>\n
M \u2013 mad<\/b><\/div>\n
N \u2013 nervous<\/b><\/div>\n
O \u2013 odd<\/b><\/div>\n
P \u2013 proud<\/b><\/div>\n
Q – quiet<\/b><\/div>\n
R \u2013 relaxed<\/b><\/div>\n
S \u2013 sad \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 shy<\/b><\/div>\n
T – tired<\/b><\/div>\n
U \u2013 under the weather\/unhappy\/unwell\/upset\/unlucky<\/b><\/div>\n
V \u2013 very happy<\/b><\/div>\n
W – worried<\/b><\/div>\n
X – ‘X’-tra ‘X’-cited!<\/b><\/div>\n
Y \u2013 yippee!!!<\/b><\/div>\n
Z – zen<\/b><\/div>\n
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Other Curricular Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last term we looked at Ancient China:<\/p>\n

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“Ancient China was a fun topic. We got to mix colours in paint to make masks.” – Gabriella<\/p>\n

“I liked how we learned about and made dragons.” – Jack S<\/p>\n

In our in-class topic, we have begun to learn about Scotland. This is to celebrate Burn’s Night! We will look at Scottish holiday destinations. So far, we have looked at the Isle of Arran and compared life, nature, transport and housing to our lives in Hamilton (mainland).<\/p>\n

Last term were learning all about Water, and how it can change form by freezing, melting and boiling. We enjoyed doing lots of water based experiments and predicting which materials would dissolve in water, then testing it out! This term we are going to be learning all about sound, how our ears work and doing lots of experiments to produce sound from vibrations and change the pitch. Sounds like fun! (Mrs Brock)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thank you for reading our blog update \u2013 we look forward to updating you again in at the end of Term 3!<\/p>\n

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